In movies american soldiers point a laser on the target to guide missiles what technology is that?

In transformers and Battles LA you can see that ground forces used laser (or infrared I don't know which one) to point out the target, and as long as the target is pointed by the signal, the missile will hit it, so my question is what guidance technology is that? and what missiles or bombs use this technology. ThxIn movies american soldiers point a laser on the target to guide missiles what technology is that?the device is called a GLTD (Guided Laser Target Designator) and the special forces use a variation called SOFLAM which basically means special operations/forces laser marker.In movies american soldiers point a laser on the target to guide missiles what technology is that?The laser that is pointed at targets is called, wait for it ....... "laser technology"In movies american soldiers point a laser on the target to guide missiles what technology is that?It's called a laser designator.

The Armed Forces of virtually every country in the world use them.In movies american soldiers point a laser on the target to guide missiles what technology is that?
Laser guided bombs